How to Use whitewashing in a Sentence

whitewashing

noun
  • Good luck with the whitewashing.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • This smacks of whitewashing, which is usually a bad sign.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • This whitewashing is perhaps most acutely felt in public schools.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The whitewashing that the facts often get didn’t happen in this situation.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Greene is far from the first Republican to attempt a whitewashing of what happened that day.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Here, cannibalism is a metaphor for the whitewashing of a neighborhood.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • And that’s to say nothing of their aforementioned whitewashing of his abysmal foreign-policy record.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Ending the whitewashing and begin, once and for all, to denormalize the double-speak.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The studio knows that viewers are concerned about potential whitewashing.
    — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 8 Feb. 2017
  • There is also a whitewashing attempt by the government of India.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 22 Aug. 2019
  • For generations the city has been a hub of Black music plagued by rampant whitewashing and swagger jacking.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 20 Mar. 2026
  • There’s not any whitewashing going on here as the singer’s physical condition goes from bad to worse as filming goes on in period visits over the last four years.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Jughead is outraged and wonders why no one knows this story and Toni is like, welcome to the whitewashing of history, Jones.
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Another type of whitewashing is when people of color are displaced in a story to put the focus on white characters, says Nishime.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 1 June 2021
  • Dillard coach Tyler Tate said the game was business as usual as the team followed the game plan en route to the 42-0 whitewashing.
    — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The movie has also been called out for its whitewashing, screenplay, and for trying to fit everything that happened in the first season of the series in a less than 2 hour film.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 July 2020
  • To many, the comment reflected the broader whitewashing of the genre, and showed how Balvin had capitalized on that erasure to become a star.
    — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Half Full, chronicling the whitewashing of the word plantation despite its obvious links to slavery.
    — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Not a darned thing, which is extra disappointing since the series restores the character’s racial background after the movie’s whitewashing.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2022
  • McCarthy's whitewashing of what happened on January 6, then, is a survival tactic for him.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Irvine starred in Stonewall, which was criticized for its whitewashing of the Stonewall riots, as Danny Winters.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 May 2021
  • The last time the Patriots tossed a shutout was earlier this season in a 29-0 whitewashing of the Lions.
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • That came in a 4-minute-6-second whitewashing of Groupama Team France, which was eliminated with one race to sail.
    — The Associated Press, New York Times, 3 June 2017
  • As the communist grip on power began slipping in the late 1980s, those omissions were exposed as Red whitewashing.
    — David Filipov, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
  • Critics called the interpretation a whitewashing of the role that Hungary’s government and civilians had in the crimes of the Holocaust.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 22 July 2017
  • Critics called the interpretation a whitewashing of the role that Hungary’s government and civilians had in the crimes of the Holocaust.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
  • Still, the whitewashing of Reagan’s red-baiting remains the movie’s defining sin, and a testament to how any sense of portraiture is swamped by the petty desire to win a one-sided debate.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The problem with this Ghost in the Shell is, frankly, everything else around the movie — especially the accusations of whitewashing leveled against the action-thriller.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 13 July 2024
  • On the other side, there’s a certain amount of apprehension from the Muslim community about whether or not [Kamala] is going to be a stereotype or a whitewashing.
    — Laura Hudson, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2014
  • But survivors of martial law still dealing with the trauma of the past say a Marcos Jr presidency will mean the end of justice for victims; the whitewashing of history complete.
    — Veejay Villafranca For Cnn, CNN, 6 May 2022

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